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Education: Our Future Anchor of Communicating and Connecting
What comes to mind, when you hear the word “Communicate”? What do you feel, when you think of the word “Connecting”?
Should one come before the other, or are they both equally important? Why? How?
When you talk to someone or message someone via social media, what assumptions do you make without realising? When you read something or hear about an incident, what assumptions do you make without realising? How do you define “Communicate” or “Connect”? How do you view the process of communication, before anything happens with a stranger or loved one?
When you talk to someone, how do you communicate and connect?
When you read or hear something, how does communication and connection affect you?
At this point of reading, do you assume communication must take place, in order to foster connections? At this point of time, do you also assume that you are what you think? Do you assume there is nothing within you, which affects how you perceive situations? Do you assume there is nothing within you or affecting you, which shapes how you convey what you want someone to understand about you? Do you think external factors or circumstances have any impact upon your communication?
Have you ever tried to explain to someone- who has experienced or is experiencing verbal and/or psychological and/or emotional abuse- as to why they are fine as they are, and they need to love themself? After such efforts, have you ever been in a situation whereby the person cannot accept what you have said, even though you have been clear and concise and what you said should be completely understood and accepted, for being accurate?
If you have experienced this, how did you feel? If you have been told to love yourself by someone, why did you refuse to accept?
Many people, including yourself, have been wounded by experiences and/or people. In reading this, you might not realise how your wounds affect your ability to communicate and connect with yourself, which has a primary impact on your ability to communicate with others. Humans are tremendously resilient at overcoming obstacles and hardships while being wounded, which is why our predecessors in many countries of this world have managed to enable us to achieve the modern comforts and wonders of today. Our children have benefitted tremendously.
However, our current generation and future generations are facing unprecedented challenges, which require timeless anchors enabling us to further progress without forgetting ethics and lessons which have gotten us to where we are, today.
Communication and connection shape education. You are an education. Any interactions you exercise with someone else will teach another person to consider emulating, consider accepting, or rejecting something about you or you in entirety. How do you educate yourself? How do you educate others? What impact do you want to make?
Have you ever rejected something positive which someone told you, about yourself? Have you ever attempted to tell someone a truth about themselves, and been rejected? Answers to these two questions exist within a tremendous spectrum.
Anyone who carries wounds has a story. Everyone who has been abused has a story. Everyone who has tried to help and give advice to someone experiencing abuse also has a story. Carrying wounds versus bearing the trauma of abuse alongside the wounds of abuse can be very different.
You can possess admirable intellect which is an ability others recognise about you as a leader, emotional maturity able to transform a school of children into future leaders in their individual fields, and you may have already honed the ability to win debates at an international level. However, you cannot convince someone to accept what you are saying about certain issues, especially if that someone is disconnected about certain issues affecting emotional and mental states within themselves. It is nothing personal. Unhealed wounds create an inability to process certain truths and gaps which obstruct connections, affecting how one accepts communication or chooses to exercise communication.
If you’re convinced that what you say should be easily understood and accepted by others, do you think you know how to connect and communicate well enough with strangers? On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate your communication skills and hence your ability to connect with other people? What skills do you think are necessary for effective communication?
If you are communicating with a victim of long-term narcissistic abuse or a victim of sexual abuse, do you think intellectual humility is absolutely necessary and fundamental to the empathy that they need from others and how they should be approached, if you interact with them?
On issues related to intellect, a victim of sexual abuse or sexual assault can process some intellectual aspects of issues, but their visceral and somatic reactions of any triggers making them remember their trauma are very difficult to deal with, which non-suffers usually do not understand. People who develop complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) have usually experienced significantly-harrowing traumas, which any decent human never wishes for nor inflicts on another human. There is no expectation for such suffers of such traumas to be able to take on certain issues and if they do, it is only if they want to try.
How you communicate and connect is not just about yourself and any factors affecting you, but also the person you are interacting with and any factors affecting them. If a person is physically and mentally in anguish and anxiety, every day is a challenge to live through. If a person is emotionally and mentally in anguish and anxiety from traumas such as sexual abuse, every day is a temptation to stop the anguish.
The greatest communicators connect effectively, because they have the awareness and willingness to try to combine nuanced necessity with practicality while being aware of specific context. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us forevermore.”
That quote is lovely in theory, but mostly impossible in reality. Humans tend to be judgmental, and we have this knee-jerk tendency to judge whatever we disagree with while ignoring context. What you communicate is also almost-immediately subject to the biases and prejudices of the person you are communicating with. Whatever you analyse is also almost-immediately subject to any prejudices or biases you hold, when communicating with someone else.
Intellectual humility and intellectual integrity gives one sufficient self-awareness emotionally and mentally to pause and analyse while being aware that barring emergency situations, any judgments are preliminary and subject to changes, as something unfolds. This is key to effective communication.
Effective communication is not a slogan or quote that is pretty to share on social media but cannot be exercised by the masses. Effective communication enables true comprehension of systems and definitions relative to the vulnerability in mental and emotional states of another person.
Regardless of whether someone is wounded or not, you cannot convince someone to accept what you are saying, especially when they carry certain beliefs as conclusions and will not be influenced by one conversation. Do not take it personally.
People can be reasonable on many issues but on certain issues, they are affected personally by previous unhealed wounds and it is nothing personal against you. They can hear you, but their personal wounds render them unable to understand you or believe what you are saying. Do not take it personally.
What can make a significant difference is how you conduct yourself, when you broach a topic with another person or continue to interact in multiple conversations with a person or group of people, be it online or offline. What awareness do you wish to possess, before you raise an issue? Is your ego in the way, whereby you believe whatever you say should be automatically understood and accepted by whoever you are speaking to, simply because both of you are using the same language and you believe you are right?
Similarly, many factors can affect how we perceive and analyse situations, before we settle on interpretations and conclusions which we might share with others.
Writing this rudimentary summary for you to read is to raise necessary self-awareness if you want to try to communicate effectively: The awareness of how we might be affected without realising, and the awareness of how others might be affected without their realising.
Communication and connections affecting you first and foremost as an individual is the primary combination that can determine whether you are able to provide what you aim to do so, in your communication with others to foster connections.
Increasing self-awareness rooted in emotional maturity and intellectual humility will help to foster a higher likelihood of effective personal connections and communications. How do you connect meaningfully? Do you connect meaningfully when someone is arrogantly rude to you? Do you want to connect with frequent sarcasm? Or do you connect unforgettably with people who have touched something empathetic within you?
Basic respect and empathy in communication goes a long way. If you ask whether respect and empathy is necessary, I ask you what you want when someone talks to you as a stranger. Do you want the respect and empathy of talking to a fellow human without being instantly judged, hoping to be heard and understood, and getting such respect and empathy in return?
What would you think, if someone stated, “I have no confidence in humanity and men”? Would you instantly judge that statement or that person with any assumptions? Would you consider your approach, which can include asking questions to find out why someone would say that?
When you speak to someone after reading all the above, would you have any extra considerations in your approach or additional changes in how you interpret what you are given as a reaction, before you choose to react?
When we use social media, anonymity emboldens some people to verbally behave in ways which they would not otherwise do so, if they could be identified offline. When we speak to someone verbally on the phone or face-to-face or via messages, many of us do not realise many factors affecting our exchanges, be it from our side or from the other side.
You cannot account for every single factor, be it with strangers or loved ones or acquaintances. What you can do is to foster effective communication and connections as much as possible, if you aim to be understood and if you want to have healthy fruitful exchanges.
For those fortunate enough not to be victims of long-term narcissistic abuse or victims of sexual abuse or sexual assault or other traumas usually resulting in CPTSD in victims, we should try to connect well enough within ourselves and foster the health of our mental and emotional states, if we wish to communicate effectively and hence connect as effectively as possible with others. Everyone takes time to heal, when wounded. Healing is not always about wanting to get things done as soon as possible. Healing is about recognising a need to start somewhere, with baby steps. Healing can also be about helping others experience an exchange that is effective, whereby you are communicating with an approach which is genuinely you, individual and healthy.
If you are wondering whether this article is going to have any substance to teach you anything, it is already influencing you, when you have read until this sentence. What you choose to do with the fundamental self-awareness stimulated when reaching the end of this article is up to you.
I will describe a situation whereby you need to pay attention to your instinctive reactions while you understand the situation. Doing so will enable you to understand certain obstacles which have been blocking you from connecting and hence communicating effectively. A writing instrument and paper is necessary. Do not use something technological, such as a tablet or a mobile phone.
You have been working hard. You have been trying to network. You have a unique dream, a project, a goal which you want to become reality, but it requires the help of other people. You have received rejections for more than 10 years.
In one of your attempts at networking, a stranger indicates willingness to listen to what you have to say, but it must be a physical meeting or a videocall. In your first conversation, they refuse to make decisions but insist on talking to you once a week. When they talk to you after that first initial conversation, they do not discuss your goals or project or dream. They listen to what you say, and by the third conversation, they gently tell you certain sentences:
You are special. You are too hard on yourself. You are fine the way you are. You need to love yourself.
After five weeks of conversations, each time taking up one hour, you do not understand why they want to talk to you. They persist in asking to speak to you, and when you ask, they tell you that they care about you. In your mind, you know this person is not a psychologist or holding ay official qualification related to what they have said about you. They ask about your day, your week, and they just let you talk. They have not asked you to pay them anything or give them anything.
You ask them what they think you should so, and they will not tell you what to do. If they are not going ahead with helping you with your goals which you explained to them, why are they doing this? Their answer is succinct, something they have repeated at least three times before.
I care about you.
After ten weeks, they have listened to you talk about what you read, heard about some habits in your life, perhaps traumas or unpleasant experiences you previously suffered, praised you for someone you are helping who cannot help you back in any way, and you are none the wiser for why we are still having these conversations.
One day, they claim they will give you a name and mobile number. Before you can reject or rebuff or wonder what is this about, they give the details to you. You do not know what to do with this. You do not know how to react to this gesture.
After 5 months of interaction, you discover that the person who has been conversing with you is also wounded. They were wounded from the traumas of war and were paralysed in bed for almost a year, and they also suffered from horrendous bullying when they were a child. This bullying persisted into teenagehood. They are unable to handle the first significant disagreement that finally happens between you and them.
Upon discussing a certain subject, they refuse to answer your main question, and do the following: Attempt to change the goalposts and subjects, minimise your thoughts and feelings, create blame and shift the blame to you while attributing all the ways you are wrong to you when all of it is not true, ignore the facts you have cited which proves them wrong, make blanket general statements, revise history, use compassionate words as weapons, deny they have any mental health issues- What do you do? How would you respond?
What happens next?
Answer the questions below, writing out your answers based on your instinctive reactions. You might need to sleep on those answers for up to a week, before you can answer bluntly. You will start to see certain details emerge about yourself, which you might have fleetingly noted but never realised before.
Do not use something technological to do so. A writing instrument and paper is the best medium for seeing the entirety and process of your scribbled expressions and changes. Date your answers, including changes to previous answers. Take at least a week to answer these questions, then look at them again.
What do you learn from this entire exercise? What transformed about you during this process? When you had been told not to be too hard on yourself, when you were told that someone you do not know cares about you: What were your reactions? Write down your reaction to each statement that they told you. Did you believe them? Did you doubt their intentions and/or them as a person?
When you rejected some statements or all statements said to you by a stranger expressing personal concern and kindness, what were you rejecting? Were you rejecting their statements because of your previous experiences from other people? Were you rejecting their statements because you did not believe you merited these statements which you interpret as akin to belief about you from someone else? Were you rejecting their statements because people you trusted while growing up as a child or teenager had treated you badly, being verbally unkind to you or breaking promises and trust with their actions? Are you rejecting their statements because you are interacting with people who treat you badly, professing honour and reliability but behaving in the exact opposite manner? Have you suffered from narcissistic abuse?
What are you afraid of? What have you experienced as a process with loved ones or strangers, which made you analyse and assume your future experiences with strangers would be similar?
When someone who has been able to heal you to a certain extent behaves in a manner akin to someone with narcissism, what is your reaction? Can you tell the difference between an actual narcissist versus someone who is not a narcissist but so badly wounded that their gaslighting seems akin to an unhealed trauma desperately needing help? Are you able to appreciate what that person did for you, yet realise boundaries must be firmly in place to protect yourself against their gaslighting, while acknowledging you do not have the skills to help this person?
You should be grateful to someone for helping you significantly and sympathetic to their wounds, but you must not allow a person to emotionally or mentally abuse you. You should remember what they have done for you, but you must not allow someone to emotionally or mentally manipulate you, regardless of whether they are doing it intentionally or unintentionally.
Unintentional gaslighting is unacceptable. You must have boundaries. Boundaries are important to your emotional and mental health. Healthy boundaries are necessary. Do not allow yourself to be abused until barriers are formed within yourself, which affects how you interact with other people or perceive other people or communicate with other people.
It is very easy to stop communicating with someone in this day and age. Do you know how to handle the emotions stemming from such an argument, given how you have been treated in a significant disagreement by someone you possibly trust? What will you do? How will you choose to perceive this person, and how will you choose to behave towards this person?
If you do not possess the circumstances and skills to interact with someone who is gaslighting you, you will understandably stop talking to this person for self-protection. If they continue interacting with you, you can choose what you entrust to them, if you still do so. And if they repeat such behaviour in a second disagreement, what will you do? There is no right or wrong answer, because it depends on circumstances and you.
Gaslighting can be a survival mechanism borne in childhood, to survive a horrible environment where abuse was a constant factor. Gaslighting can be learned from another family member. Gaslighting is not always deliberate. Gaslighting can also be due to misunderstanding.
However, gaslighting is abuse and manipulation which requires firm boundaries within anyone when that someone is subjected to such behaviour. You need to know how to identify the symptoms, and be aware of your options. The need to assert your boundaries is important, civilly and firmly. Do not apologise when you have not said or done anything wrong. An individual should inform the person doing the gaslighting at some point, with clear concise explanations. But if there is a power imbalance -an example being your employer subjecting you to gaslighting- Consider the outcome(s) you are ready to accept and deal with, depending on whether you address the issue or sidestep the issue temporarily.
You can tell someone not to be a victim, but prolonged circumstances can render a person as a victim so badly wounded that the process of healing can sometimes seem impossible, or requires many years to achieve. Do you understand how it becomes important, not to take things personally? What do you preserve of a victim who also becomes an abuser? Do you choose to remain their friend? If so, how? Do you reject them?
Whatever the process or outcomes, be fair to yourself and to them. If they can help others but are also broken in a way beyond your ability to fix, acknowledge this. Do not devalue their pain or what they have done for you. In many instances there is no resolution, no reckoning, no drama of obvious binaries resulting in completely-diverging outcomes. This happens everyday with many people in many countries, without your knowledge. And this is not necessarily something good or bad. It is what it is. Your coming-to-terms with your friendship or relationship (or end of either one) with someone is ultimately what you make of it, because you can do your best but you cannot control everything or anyone.
We want to help people. We want good outcomes for good people, and retribution for bad people. But many situations are not so simplified, even if we do our best to simplify and solve, and oversimplification can backfire.
Sometimes, it is done. It is not to be fixed, not left hanging, not something to resume, and not something to improve. How did you emotionally and mentally handle all this?
This is a temporary window into the complications of communication and connection, between two humans. Although wounded, communication and connections can occur. Context and caution in judgment is everything. Do you have the wisdom to handle someone exercising unintentional gaslighting on you? Do you have the wisdom not to hold a grudge, while asserting your boundaries and refusing to be bullied or broken by someone who is broken in at least one aspect or more?
Many of us have been wounded by our experiences in life. Many of us are still wounded. The wounds are not actual flesh and blood being shed, but they are cuts leaving their mark. Whether they heal is not necessarily up to you. The victims of abuse have certain wounds that may never heal. You can help in the partial healing of many of these scars if they are wounds not due to abuse, but they require facing up to the cuts and gaps created in you. How can you face the cuts and heal the gaps, when you have never experienced steadfast firm kindness over 4 months from a stranger who refused to verbally judge you for what you were sharing with them?
Connect the gaps within yourself, and you will heal your ability to communicate. You can heal significantly by gratefully realising the effects of empathy and kindness given to you from a fellow human being over an extended period, that fellow human being not asking anything from you in return nor telling you what to do. You realise that beliefs you held can be wrong, about yourself and about people. You cannot force gratitude from within yourself. It must flow. And in this case, trust and respect must be restored, before gratitude can flow.
How many people would help you in such a manner, over a span of many weeks or months?
Before you can truly realise you can be wrong, what did you have to experience?
One person was utilising the power of communication and connection to heal another person. It requires wisdom, to have the discipline and maturity and consistency not to interfere with a process and to know not to intrude into someone going through a fundamentally vulnerable but necessary process to heal. A person who heals must lose their inhibitions and shame and any aggressiveness ingrained from their living experiences, unfold from their defensive cocoon, and choose to remove any masks. This process always takes time. It can take at least three months, and unsurprisingly more than a year.
The first part of the process is allowing reactions of a wounded person to change, based on the unchanging attitude of the person patiently and sincerely initiating the healing. The second part of the process is the wounded person coming to certain realisations and choosing to slowly remove the masks and face unhealed wounds. During this process, the wounded person is reliving the vulnerability of their childhood traumas and any similar traumas experienced as an adult. Healing wounds across space and time is a delicate matter. A single blunder from the healer will botch this complex process.
What is the wisdom of the person who initiates healing? Understanding intellectual humility must be honoured, in order to fully allow intellectual integrity to flourish. Do not betray the trust given to the healer from the person you are healing.
There are rules to be honoured, for those who understand how to heal wounds that cannot bleed. Breach any of them, and the person being vulnerable with you will experience loss of trust. If you wish to experiment with how much damage can be inflicted to cause permanent loss of respect, breach the rules more than once. Even if someone does not have the words for explaining the impact of being made to feel as if they have been preyed upon when vulnerable, they will feel the betrayal and act accordingly.
The person who decides to take the role of a healer in this process should not ask for any monetary gain or personal benefit, and any feelings are strictly platonic. The person should not make any attempt to convert someone into a religion, nor make any attempt to convince someone to leave a religion.
If you cannot recognise that the person in need of fundamental healing for wounds that cannot bleed is not you, if you cannot prioritise being emotionally self-neutral and emotionally supportive during your interactions when they are being vulnerable, then you will not be fair and honourable, and hence unsuitable for this role. This role is not for opportunists, and opportunists should be rejected.
To heal the unseen wounds of someone successfully, this requires understanding intellectual humility and intellectual integrity. What is intellectual humility and intellectual integrity? These are not abstract concepts.
Intellectual humility is the ability to recognise that I can be wrong or ignorant. Intellectual integrity is the character to understand intellectual humility is essential, while pursuing what is necessary and eventually taking a stance on the necessary. These two are twin virtues of necessary ethics constituting the crown and arms of an anchor, while the shank of the anchor is rooted in 3 fundamental elements, all these components enabling us to correct mistakes while improving ourselves.
In order to understand and effectively use this anchor which is timeless and simultaneously lighter yet heavier than you can imagine, communication and connections based on healthy emotional and mental states within oneself is necessary. All of this is essential for wisdom.
“I am what I think” or “I think, there I am” is not accurate. If you are sleep-deprived, how does this state of sleep deprivation affect your processing of information or analysis of a situation? If you are perpetually living in a stressful situation whereby your body and mind constantly experiences high cortisol levels, what impact does this have on your decision-making? If your daily diet is deficient in certain vitamins or proteins, are you aware of the effect this has on your body and your brain? If you are upset because you have just discovered that your spouse is cheating on you, how are you evaluating any situations or processing articles in the news?
If you disagree with the above and believe you cannot be affected by external factors, you can carry out a simple experiment. Ensure your sleep is interrupted at least twice during a night for three continuous nights, and analyse how you go about your daily routine on the fourth day. Or fast for 2 days without food while allowing yourself water, and analyse how you go about your daily activities on the third day. Did you have to make any changes to your daily routine, to cope? Did you find yourself more prone to excessive swings of emotions or moods, during this experiment? Do you think that in such situations, you are in a suitable position to make reliable fair decisions about complex matters?
Unless it is an emergency situation, knowing when to pause in making decisions or judgments will save you more then embarrassment. When you come across an issue in the newspapers or social media, do you immediately make conclusions or do you search for more information?
We are more likely to immediately reject a position we disagree with, if the situation is something we are passionate about or hold certain beliefs. Humans are emotional animals and can easily be tribal. We have survived, by acknowledging the necessity of traits in tribes for civilisations to flourish. Our emotions are important and have played a crucial part in fight-or-flight situations, but we must know how to balance them and benefit from them in complex situations. We do not grow by ignoring the impact of our emotions and refusing to understand how to deal with emotions. How we interpret and deal with emotions will shape our feelings. Being clueless about how emotions become feelings is not helpful.
What do you stand for? Can you articulate to a stranger about what you stand for, in simple concise words, your choice of conviction and truth able to pierce their biases, prejudices and barriers? I shall answer this question, and await your answer.
Before we speak to another person, we are judged. Every person has biases, prejudices, and beautiful traits within. How would you want to be received, by a stranger? What would you accord to a stranger, within yourself?
Emotional maturity provides a strength and conviction which words alone cannot convey. Emotional maturity combined with intellectual humility allows one to be aware of our interconnected reality, because we are observant and understand practicality while harbouring daydreams, whereby we become aware of many fellow humans carrying wounds. A truly smart individual has a moral compass of awareness and understanding regarding emotional maturity alongside intellectual humility, considering wounds of fellow humans while able to provide necessary kindness in all its forms.
Increasing self-awareness rooted in emotional maturity and intellectual humility is part of necessary kindness, to deal with good and evil. Our emotions shape our perceptions, and we come to wisdom by also understanding how we need to handle emotions which eventually shape our feelings.
Love blooms in Wisdom when Humanity realises & refines our compass of intellectual humility & integrity as One Human Tissue, to heal scars across space and time: The key to closing divides people cannot see.
What I stand for is what my ten-year-old self would have needed, from an adult wise and strong enough to provide the guidance every child will benefit from.
Tell me, what do you stand for?
What would you think, if I decide to try to communicate with you?
Stranger reading this article: How will I communicate or connect with you?
I implore you not to make any judgements for now. I will present an issue, for you to decide. You can decide about my words regarding emotional maturity combined with intellectual humility and intellectual integrity, after you evaluate what I have presented about the issue. You can educate me about what you know. Bear in mind that whatever position you take on this issue, you need to be able to substantiate your stance, and perhaps refute what I am about to share.
How you use your anchor, which I have described above, will educate me about you. How you think, how you judge, why and how you reach preliminary ideas and conclusions before any definitive judgments, and more, are details you present about yourself, in any interaction. Your decisions and behaviour plays a part in shaping our complex connected reality of several billion lives.
Institutions, technology and censorship should not be utilised to enforce such an anchor. If something has to be officially instituted, then the meaning and character of such an anchor becomes pointless. It is a choice which you can debate and reflect upon, but ultimately have to make for yourself.
For us to flourish in our globally-connected reality, we must not forget a crucial lesson to protect wisdom, which earlier civilisations would have realised: Lack of character and moral corruption will cripple a society. We need baselines which can also be refined to combat the evils in a lack of character or moral corruption, otherwise we may be too hasty to accept ideologies which harm our children or warp the most- vulnerable.
If we are to respect the importance of education, we need to respect the anchor which binds communication and connection together. And to do so, we need to accord the necessary, in words and actions. It is not about perfection. Mistakes happen. As humans, we can always improve upon ourselves. That is the beauty of our humanity: We can do so much, if we want to. What do we want for our shared interconnected reality, individually and domestically and internationally?
Reality is not theory on social media. Reality of effective solutions requires awareness of fundamental overlooked truths which can change current knowledge and beliefs. Reality is the consequence of collaborations between a pioneering few becoming many volunteers, who have skills and knowledge to formulate unique groundbreaking approaches and evaluation, aiming to transform collated irrefutable details into effective reality shaping our world.
Social media can help to positively affect reality. Such reality can occur, when connections are made between people understanding the anchor of education based on intellectual humility and intellectual integrity, to communicate and connect.
The first challenge is enabling you to become self-aware and grasp your own anchor of self-mastery, with you being willing to use it and refine it.
Before further connections can be made, the challenge of a significant problem in need of urgent rectification and the contents necessary for solving the problem must be professionally presented. The second challenge to overcome is the connecting of strangers in communication.
And that second challenge is where the few from different fields and cultures and countries become vital, enabling the third challenge of solutions into finally becoming reality.
The third challenge will be the reality of strangers volunteering and willing to work together for humanity, truly willing to enable our first step to world peace.
To prove this, it becomes imperative to accurately identify the first step in the path to regional peace, capable of eventually leading to world peace. This is only possible by showing you a world of complexity and nuances and circumstances needing global awareness for one subject crucial to that first lengthy step, which more than 99.9% of our world today does not know. Including you.
You and your loved ones are negatively affected by what you currently do not know. Do you wish to change that?
Any challenges after this will be easier to navigate, when individuals possessing different skills and differences in opinions choose to be united as a team in the anchors of intellectual humility and intellectual integrity.
If you are ready to educate others through you, then it is time for you to demonstrate your abilities to communicate and connect.
If you are not invited to read this but have found this by accident, I ask you not to share this because it is not yet ready for the world, and in the process of being prepared to do so.
This brings us to that first step of the first challenge: Challenging yourself with the second post on this Ax Accords substack blog. Please see entry dated 23 February 2023. Please also make sure that before you start reading, you are in a quiet environment whereby you are not rushed, and have 24 minutes to digest what you are seeing. One read in such circumstances will not be sufficient, but it will be a helpful start.